People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

People are more familiar with pictures of Jacques Mesrine that had been taken of him at the end of his life, when he was doing a lot of things with the media. So there's an iconic figure that people know, and I had to eventually get there; otherwise I guess the audience would have been disappointed. My only problem is that I'm a skinny guy, and it's very hard for me to put on weight.

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

I have a tendency to think that that stereotype of American movies and Hollywood movies doesn't exist. Of course you have the studios that have a very hard policy upon their artists, but then I haven't really been doing any real Hollywood movie yet.

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.